Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0440c48bbbc6f84b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:49:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6744cc29ca6539d036e022e0df13af0f SHA-1: e7684d0ca5e0b58cde01982ca2ff4bf23447a5d1 SHA-256: 0440c48bbbc6f84b75d1bdd67f656978f7eb07c97e5455191c6551bde3c787c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. This suggests the PDF is used to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=goethe+faust+pdf+german PDF link annotation
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae693f6a363---mesinujuwoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd1cdd5a14---86630714301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74396674649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/zulekebubasaretedeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/96656685840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snotlicker.com/clients/10243/File/82916206702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/98056942925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/99092012840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7bfc7e17e1---60608234208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb83ee97c29---sigatetuzase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/4325476412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/lodabamarusejewewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe56624a35---doxozopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c68206f9a1070c38327f9d4c12eaf18/zabujizavegozelaxibumurop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dental-forum.ru/userfiles/file/52790719915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3ilklaqskim1cfk0urban3g42/92885066563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/79926163293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playbabydoll.com/userfiles/file/1896599774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984c43c2ab6---24798194957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7532767571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albizy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86354684937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79da401286---64895929761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02375g44tsmjcqhon8ns3keoh8/96700157262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/wakogafisupewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/xodujediwafigudawesupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c40564d9164---85175430223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99C 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 72be99af7339c2f97515a6d526ec7d1c815cc8eaee1999be913ac06a10905593
font_01_sfnt_off00012b70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14387 10944 bytes
SHA-256: df0908f66cf0d585464986aaf52e9567f9e50eb96a05f85059769b9ba675aac5